How Writing Helped Me Love Better
It’s been just over a year since I started writing weekly for I Believe In Love–a year full of more learning and change…
It’s been just over a year since I started writing weekly for I Believe In Love–a year full of more learning and change…
I’m pregnant again. It’s early, and I’m not really telling people yet. But I’m taking a calculated risk in sharing the news with you,…
One evening not too long ago, a married couple close to my husband and me invited us over for dinner, telling us they…
Last week my husband and I left home in search of some fresh-picked apples and came home with a puppy. I’m not a huge…
I’m a huge podcast junkie, and yesterday I heard a fascinating one about the theory of ‘optimal stopping.” This is the idea that, for…
Last night my husband and I did something we simply don’t do often enough: we talked goals. We’re both on the cusp of turning…
Of all the bad choices I’ve made in relationships and the wrong turns I’ve taken, I will forever be grateful that I did one…
Everyone knows that one of the top issues that couples fight about –and break up over–is money. But why? It’s just dollars and cents,…
I am a real stickler for people doing their fair share. I try hard to always do my part, and I can get pretty…
In my home office, there is a shelf of books about dating, marriage, and how to know you’ve met the one. When I look…
All I wanted was a meet-cute. As a college student in New York City, I spent a lot of evenings with my roommates watching…
When my daughter was only two weeks old, I caved to cabin fever and took her on a first trip to the grocery store….
According to tradition, you are supposed to give paper gifts on the first wedding anniversary and leather on the third. I like to think…
I’m a terribly impatient person and I don’t look for opportunities to delay gratification. But over the last six years and several seasons of…
“Don’t sweat the small stuff,” the saying goes, “and it’s all small stuff.” I love the sentiment behind that and it’s often true. But…
The longer that I have spent my life married — the longer, in fact, I have been committed in a unique love to one…
My husband and I are big-time, card-carrying, happy-on-a-desert-island introverts. While most dating couples worry about disagreements they’ll have and whether they’re ready to commit,…
My favorite podcast, This American Life, featured an interview with Alain de Botton, an author with what appears to be a very cynical…
I spend a lot of time around military officials for my job, and I’ve often heard top-level brass say that the Pentagon has a…
I live in a perpetually angry city: Washington, D.C. Twice in the last week, I’ve witnessed angry shouting confrontations between strangers in the…